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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

People visit the Nazi Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Oranienburg, Germany, January 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
April 22, 2025, 6:00 am
Report projects fewer than 100,000 living Holocaust survivors by 2032
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Claims Conference predicts that only about 20,000 eyewitnesses to the murder of six million Jews will remain worldwide by 2040
By Zev Stub
A small Israeli flag on the rail tracks at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during commemorations to honor the victims of the Holocaust, near the historical gate of Birkenau (Auschwitz II) near the village of Brzezinka near Oswiecim, Poland on April 28, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski / AFP)
May 4, 2024, 8:04 am
How Jewish world marking Yom Hashoah, months after deadliest day for Jews since Holocaust
March of the Living to be led by 55 survivors, including 7 also affected by October 7; while some double-survivors connect the two experiences, others caution against
By jacob gurvis
Holocaust survivor Herbert Rubinstein talks during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Dusseldorf, Germany, April 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
May 2, 2024, 9:32 am
Survivors rebut Holocaust denial posts on social media to fight antisemitism
Claims Conference launches #cancelhate campaign ahead of Yom Hashoah to shine a light on historic persecution of Jews amid anti-Israel protests over Gaza war
By Agencies
People listen to speeches during a demonstration against antisemitism and to show solidarity with Israel in Berlin, Germany, on October 22, 2023. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
April 4, 2024, 11:09 am
Holocaust agency opens survivor speakers bureau to fight spiking global antisemitism
New York-based Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany says new group aimed at connecting survivors in-person or virtually with students around the world
By AP and ToI Staff
Works of art by Austrian expressionist artist Egon Schiele on display at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, September 20, 2023, during a ceremony returning the pieces to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum. (AP/Bobby Caina Calvan)
March 9, 2024, 10:11 am
21 more countries agree to updated guidelines on restituting Nazi-looted art
WJRO and Claims Conference say 24 nations made minimal to no progress on issue, adding that it’s more difficult when it comes to pieces in private hands rather than public collections
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Holocaust survivor Assia Gorban, left, and her granddaughter Ruth Gorban pose during an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, April 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Michele Tantussi)
April 18, 2023, 6:21 pm
With their children and grandchildren, Holocaust survivors tell their stories online
More than 100 survivors are taking part in a digital campaign led by the Claims Conference to illustrate the importance of passing on their testimonies to younger family members
By Kirsten Grieshaber
US Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, right, speaks with 101-year-old Margot Friedländer, center, during a meeting with Holocaust survivors in Berlin, January 31, 2023. (US Embassy Berlin)
February 1, 2023, 11:01 am
Doug Emhoff’s trip to Poland and Germany brings him back to Jewish ancestral roots
US second gentleman describes meeting Holocaust survivors who recently fled war in Ukraine as ’emotional and intense,’ recalls his own grandparents’ flight to safety in America
By Toby Axelrod
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, on the platform left, and Rabbi Segal Shmoel, on the platform right, inspect a giant Hanukkah Menorah, set up by the Jewish Chabad Educational Center ahead of the Jewish Hanukkah holiday, in front of the Brandenburg Gate at the Pariser Platz in central Berlin, Germany, Dec. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
December 20, 2022, 2:55 pm
Holocaust survivors to celebrate Hanukkah by spreading message of hope worldwide
Virtual event will highlight survivors from across the globe, including some recently evacuated from war-torn Ukraine; ceremony to feature Herzog, Scholtz, Barbra Streisand
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Local resident Juergen Schulz lays down a flower after he polishes so-called 'Stolpersteine' or 'stumbling stones' commemorating people deported and killed by the Nazis in front of his house in Berlin, Germany, November 9, 2021 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)
November 9, 2022, 8:20 am
Holocaust survivors warn of antisemitism, hate speech on Kristallnacht anniversay
On 84th anniversary of ‘Night of Broken Glass,’ Claims Conference relaunches campaign to educate on role antisemitic language played in Holocaust
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Two of 100 Holocaust survivors, Eva Evans (left) and Judith Bihaly (right) who participated in a video marking Yom HaShoah, Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 2022. (Greg Schneider/AP)
April 28, 2022, 8:49 am
Holocaust survivors issue Remembrance Day message against dangers of unchecked hate
Claims Conference initiative brings together 100 survivors to warn of need to remember Nazi atrocities amid rising antisemitism
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO
93-year-old Polish citizen Andrzej Sitkowski, who was named 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Yad Vashem in 1995 talks to the Associated Press during an interview in Durach, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexandra Beier)
January 25, 2022, 11:13 am
Holocaust survivors honor those who saved them, in social media campaign
Yad Vashem and Claims Conference team up to highlight stories of ‘Righteous Rescuers’ who risked everything, even their lives, to save Jews from murder by the Nazis
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Holocaust survivors dance during a Hanukkah menorah lighting ceremony at the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, on Tuesday, November 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
November 30, 2021, 10:51 pm
Holocaust survivors mark Hanukkah at Western Wall menorah lighting
Event organized by Jewish Claims Conference includes virtual remarks from Jewish, Israeli and German leaders; German chancellor-designate vows to combat antisemitism
By AP
Hugo and Lucie Mendel on the balcony of their Tel Aviv apartment prior to Hugo's suicide in 1957. (Courtesy of Emanuel Rosen)
June 19, 2021, 8:03 am
How one brave woman held Germany accountable for father’s suicide in Tel Aviv
In family memoir, ‘If Anyone Calls, Tell Them I Died,’ Emanuel Rosen examines grandfather’s tragic life and death after failed immigration to Israel due to 1930s Nazi persecution
By Renee Ghert-Zand
'Genocide' by Madeline Dittman, a submission to TOLI's online art exhibit (courtesy)
September 22, 2020, 4:39 am
As Holocaust awareness declines in US, youth make art to preserve fading history
NY’s Olga Lengyel Institute reacts to disturbing new research about lack of once common Holocaust facts, highlighting its new ‘How High School Students See the Holocaust’ exhibit
By Matt Lebovic
Portraits of Holocaust survivors are displayed at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, as a vintage German train car, like those used to transport people to Auschwitz and other death camps, is lowered onto tracks outside the museum in New York, March 31, 2019. (AP/Richard Drew)
January 22, 2020, 5:01 pm
Most Americans know what Holocaust was; don’t know 6 million Jews were killed
Major Pew survey finds fewer than half of US adults know how Hitler came to power, other Shoah-related specifics; situation is even worse among teens (but not young adults)
By Joshua Davidovich
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